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Some news of the Garve and Ullapool Railway
Hello,
it's been a while since my last post.
Ullapool is now installed in my railway room, and fully functional. During spring and summer I held two operating session. And another will follow in about three weeks. The layout is constructed along the walls of the room and at the moment the fiddle yard reaches in the room. For the future I plan to include a junction station so I've got a possibility for my trains to pass and meet on the line.
Here a few pictures from the layout.
Bradford Valley Lumber Company #8 - A Scratchbuilt Logging 2-6-6-2T
Hi all,
This is my first blog post here, so I'll say a bit about me and my railroad, first. My name's Daniel, and I'm a keen model railroader living in Queensland, Australia. I've modelled in N, HOn3 and HO, before finally settling on On30 as the scale for me. I'm modeling a freelanced logging railroad, the Bradford Valley Lumber Co. in On30. It's set in the Pacific Northwest United States, during the 1940s and 1950s.
Question re: wall preparation
Could somebody point me please to the discussion on
radiusing wall corners? My memory being what it is,
I can't remember where I last saw it....
Thanks,
Dan
Dover Subroadbed and divider Progress
Finally started on the Dover/Madison area, specifically the subroadbed for Dover and the vertical divider between Dover and Madison that will also serve as the center support for Gilman VT on the upper level later.
Photos and step-by-step descriptions of today's work will be in the next post.
-Ed
Scale sizes
Hi all
I want to try some scratchbuilding in N scale. Since I'm used to the metric system I'm a bit confused about inch scale sizes you are using.
As N scale is almost 50% of H0 scale, is it safe to asume that a H0 scale 2x4 in N scale a 1x2 is? Or am I wrong?
Regards,
Rob
Update of HO Old Time Bachmann 4-4-0 Sound
I have updated my "what I did" to reflect the use of a Mabuchi # FF-030PA 08250
motor:
http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/1879/bachmann_4-4-0/sound/
and a PDF at:
http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/1879/bachmann_4-4-0/sound/rework.pdf
There are only nine pages in the PDF not ten as indicated.
Floquil Thinner
I have some Floquil paints that I plan to use to airbrush a new paint scheme on a Loco, Alas I don't have Floquil thinners. I do have Nitrocellulose lacquer thinners which work fine with Testors Dullcote. Can some kind person please tell me if the same thinner will work with Floquil?
Peter
G Scale Couplers
So I've started modeling G scale. Looking at putting Kadee couplers on and looking for input. In HO scale I like #58's (scale size). Looking at Kadee's website a lot of the couplers seem to be offset from the shank, is it possible to use all centerset couplers? How about body mount for locos/rolling stock?
Eric
N Scale Turntable options
I have been searching online for what my options are for N scale turntables. Building one from scratch is beyond my newbie skills, so I need to purchase. I need three turntables on the main level of the layout:
- Dover NH. It will feed the old 6 stall Dover roundhouse. Trouble is, the 6 stalls are only around 10 to 12 degree arc spacing. So the Atlas turntable with 15 degree positions would not work for me for that one,
- Conway NH. That one could get away with 15 degree positions ok if necessary.
Sound in an HO Bachmann Old Time 4-4-0 Video
Finally got the reworked 4-4-0 video on You Tube:
The rework article is at:
http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/1879/bachmann_4-4-0/sound/
The motor has been changed to a Mabuchi # FF-030PA 08250 from the article motor. The decoder is a Soundtraxx Tsunami Light Steam.
Thank you if you visit
Harold
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